Due wed 3/21 - Republic Assignment

1. In your opinion, how can acting “right” (i.e. justly) help or harm the achievement of happiness? In your answer you need to first establish, in true Socratic fashion, what you mean by "right" (justice) and what you mean by happiness. What do you think Socrates would say about what you wrote and/or what do you think Thrasymachus would say?
In my opinion acting right can help or harm the person it depends on what brings happiness to them. For example if following the law doing the right things make you happy then acting right helps your achievement of happiness. But if you’re a rebel you like to break the law than acting right harms your achievement of happiness. To me right means doing what the law and justice says, and happiness is what makes you feel good and happy. I think that Thrasymachus will probably say that this is true because to him justice is the interest of the strong witch make the strong happy, but like I said if following the law doing the right thing makes you happy then there’s no problem.